The Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-2 Saturday, for their 4th win in a row, and will go for the 3 game series sweep Sunday afternoon.

Chris Sale struck out 10 while just walking 1 and scattering 6 hits over 6 innings. He allowed the 2 runs.

Meanwhile the Red Sox bats who hit 5 homers on Thursday, and 6 on Friday continued to be hot, with JD Martinez hitting his 16th homer, and 3rd in 2 days in the 7th inning.

Brock Holt was 3-5. Andrew Benintendi, Rafael Devers and Michael Chavis were all 2-5. Xander Bogaerts had a double and drove in 2 runs.

The Red Sox are now 38-34 and 5.5 games behind the 1st place New York Yankees. The Red Sox will send Brian Johnson to the mound against the Orioles in the final game of the 3 game series Sunday afternoon. The pregame begins at 12:05 and 1st pitch at 1:05. You can hear that game and every game on AM 1370 WDEA in the Ellsworth and Bar Harbor area and The Rock 101.9 FM, WOZI in Presque Isle

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